ABOUT THIS ALBUM

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TOti was born October 22 in northern México (Torreon, Coahuila). As a little girl she took ballet, jazz and tap dancing lessons. She also participated in floor gymnastic competitions and acting classes. At the age of eight, TOti had the opportunity to join the rock band "Micro Chips". Micro Chips was formed by her older brothers Javier and Daniel and managed by their father Javier Sr. In 1988 Micro Chips first album "Niños Electricos" ("Electric Boys"), was released which featured their hit single "Angello", a song written by Billy Steinberg & TOti. Angello was written specially for a "MENUDO" member in whom at that time also Ricky Martin was part of. Angello is still played on radio stations across México and U.S. "Niños Electricos" was awarded a Gold Record for sales over 150,000 albums. Micro Chips also toured and performed all along México, U.S. and Central America, always with sold out concerts. In 1990, TOti along with her brothers Javier & Daniel started a new journey inviting their youngest family member Barbie and formed "Rock Kids" recording two albums for Polygram Records. Rock Kids performed and appeared on TV shows and Toured México and U.S. When "Rock Kids" disbanded TOti decided to live a normal life like any other teenager in her hometown, but she felt something was missing. What TOti really wanted was to go back performing and singing on stage so when she turned 18 she moved to México. She found starting all over again wasn't easy all by herself. On January 1996, after a year and two months in Mexico, TOti received a call from her brother Daniel inviting her to join his band that needed a lead singer. At that time TOti was experiencing the lean years so she chose to move to Monterrey. TOti has been singing non-stop over the last 10 years in clubs in northern Mexico which cities include Torreón, Saltillo, Durango, Chihuahua, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Mc Allen & Laredo, Texas, being Monterrey her base. At the end of 2003 TOti and her brother Daniel, decided to start what would become the TOtiPrOJeCT, TOti’s solo debut album. In order to keep perusing her dream, she had to put on hold her club singing gig because she wanted to focus full time on her album. After almost 5 months on songwriting sessions with composers in Mexico City, she went to L.A. to work on song selection and arrangements and 2 months later she went back to continue with her singing gig in order to fund her album. Both TOti and Daniel where not 100% convinced about the material so TOti went searching for more co-writing partners whom which she felt comfortable writing. Time after, she felt she had the right stuff and went back and forth between Monterrey and Los Angeles in order to continue the recording and not to loose her singing gig. It took almost 3 years to complete her album which include 10 songs where TOti co-wrote 7 of them and 3 of them from other composers. After the musical part of the album was completed, TOti got also involved in the Album Cover Design, Album Pictures, Clothing because she wanted to give the most of it to her fans that followed TOti’s career after leaving the Micro Chips Band. While TOti was working on all the non-musical part of the album, Daniel continued to mixing the album in between tours playing percussion for Paul Anka. TOti felt that authenticity is a very important part of success. She has fought for her dreams and has been persistent about them and it’s what she wants to share with her fans.
“We have to have faith and believe in what we do, visualize our self with the most success possible because that is how you will accomplish everything you want. But there is one thing: we have to be very patience.
This was a long process along with lots of effort and sacrifice but the results made possible for you to have the record in your hands. Enjoy it, have fun with it, dance, cry, jump and make whatever feels good to do with it, because each one of you that owns my record is part of my biggest dream.”

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